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MR. L. C. G. CLAUKE, curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, has been appointed director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in succession to Sir Sydney Cockerell. Mr. Clarke was appointed curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in 1922, succeeding Baron Anatole von Hiigel. He has travelled extensively in Central and South America, and in Abyssinia and other parts of Africa; and he has conducted archaeological excavations in New Mexico and Hungary. In addition to being recognized as an authority on the material cultures and art of the peoples of South America, he is well known as a connoisseur in art.
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Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: New Director. Nature 139, 406–407 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139406d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139406d0